Include you in your own compassion
Radically compassionate grief care for women and couples navigating life-altering loss.
Expert therapy and specialized grief support for women and committed couples seeking to honor the love in their loss and find values-forward resilience through acceptance and compassion.
Loss is hard for many, many reasons. In our families, relationships, and in our own minds and hearts, many of us don’t know what to do after life-altering loss.
This makes sense. In a cultural context which glorifies appearance, performance, and perfection, many grievers struggle after a life-altering loss when our grief feelings seem too messy, too intense, and too uncomfortable.
Voyager Counseling was built for deeply caring, hard working, heart-and-family-forward grievers seeking an intentional path in and through life-altering loss.
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Death of a beloved or important person
Death of an estranged or ‘it’s complicated’ person
Death of a baby or child of any age
Diagnosis of a life-altering illness such as cancer (all staging), neurodegenerative illness/dementia, cardiovascular disease in self or another
Anticipatory grief during illness progression including losses of health, ability, & identity, on or off hospice
Death of a beloved creature or fur baby
Perinatal loss of any kind including chemical pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, pregnancy loss related to cancer, termination for medical reasons (TFMR), pregnancy loss related to iatrogenic harm
Sudden loss including heart attack, accident, stroke
Violent or traumatic loss including suicide loss, homicide loss, overdose loss
Losses where the death happened, but the grief is more about the chaos-after-the-loss
Complex, nuanced losses that struggle to be named
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Inner struggle with self-criticism and self-blame after loss
Disconnection from self and others, reactivity and inner struggle which comes out in relationships
Feelings of confusion, doubt, and inner swirl when people leave and the family changes after a loss
A sense of feeling flattened by grief pain—numb, want to lay down, want to stare nowhere
Struggle with social interactions & events resulting in intense anxiety or outright avoidance of being around others who don’t understand grief
Struggling with self-care, feeling like it’s a calculus problem to be kind to oneself after a life-altering loss
Feelings of disconnection from self, distant from one’s own emotions or even one’s own body
Feelings of loss of safety in the world, in medical environments, or just a general sense that the universe is a safe place to be
Feelings of anger, betrayal, or confusion at God or the cosmos
Struggle to hold one’s own grief experience with care and nurture while working as a professional caring for others or as a caregiver nurturing others
You are not alone. But it’s not enough to “know” that, as an intellectual idea, for many grievers to feel comforted. With radically compassionate grief care, you can bring the knowledge from head to heart that you, a broken-hearted human, are sincerely understandable, acceptable, and lovable in your grief and in your humanity.
You can find your path of intentional, heart-forward living.
You can build your connection in and through your grieving, together.
At Voyager Counseling, you will find:
Expert individual and couples Acceptance & Commitment Therapy offered online and in-person
Free women’s support groups for woman-to-woman connection, heartfelt support, & purposeful community
Space to grieve: from love to loss, despair to hope, acceptance to action
You are not alone.
At Voyager Counseling, we understand the struggle of trying to manage life while stuck neck-deep in grief, watching everyone else seem to just go on. We know the pain of opening social media and feeling frustrated, alone, jealous, and sad—then criticizing ourselves for feeling this way. We know what it’s like to get things done with to-do lists to make life feel orderly, then sob in quiet moments in the car. We know what it’s like to feel so separate, unbearably disconnected.
Really, you are not alone.
We offer radically compassionate grief care to women and couples who hold it together on the outside while feeling torn apart on the inside. We help grievers bring the knowledge from head to heart that grief is the flip side of love, that you do not have to grieve through chaos or shutdown, and that—with heartfelt connection & skillful support—you can feel your grief feelings and connect with what matters most to you each day of this imperfect, complex, human life.
Voyager Counseling is a love letter to the humanity, yearning, and desperate love within grief pain. We hope you will find a home for your heart here as you find your footing, connect into caring community, and learn to include yourself in your own compassion as you grieve and as you live.
We are sending you so much care and hope for soft moments on hard days. We hope to connect with you soon.
Include you in your own compassion
Hi, I’m Olga. I’m a radically compassionate grief therapist & the owner of Voyager Counseling.
In a mortal life’s voyage, when we live with deep love, we open to deep loss. Love and loss are flip sides of the same coin.
I help grieving women and couples include themselves in their own care and compassion in a life changed by loss. Grievers work with me to build the internal capacity and skillset to feel, intentionally choose purposeful forward action, and connect with clarity and skill with themselves and others. The grievers I work with are beloved humans—they create life, they care, they are hard working—and their grief work, inside to outside, leads to deepened care for their children, families, communities, and the world at large.
I specialize in strongly evidenced, compassionate Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. I provide ACT therapeutically to individuals and couples; I supervise post-graduate social workers seeking independent licensure; I facilitate expert trainings for professionals and groups.
I help grievers walk through grief pain with intentionality to gain inner and outer skills to live with purpose and heart in this mortal life. While your grief is yours alone, you do not have to stay alone and lost in your grief. I built this community for you, and for me, and for us—built for grieving people who care by a grieving person who cares.
I am wishing you soft moments on hard days and moments of grace.